BioWare and Interplay Settle

A while back, we reported on the falling out between Interplay and BioWare, who had partnered up on many occasions in the past for games such as the Baldur's Gate series and MDK2. BioWare was accusing Interplay of breach of contract by some subliscencing deals that weren't cleared through BioWare first along with allegations from both themselves and Parallax that Interplay, among others, hadn't coughed up the certain royalties due to them.

Whenever we ask you guys what games you're looking forward to this year, Neverwinter Nights is always up near the top of the list. It's not really much of a surprise considering everything that it promises to be. But we were all left in limbo a while back when the relationship between then publisher Interplay and developer BioWare started to crumble. Neverwinter suddenly no longer had a solid publisher and babies around the world started to cry for their mommies.

Today an announcement went over the wire that Interplay and BioWare have finally reached an amicable agreement to end the dispute. According to the agreement, Neverwinter Nights will now be published worldwide by Infogrames subject to certain pre-existing Interplay licenses. That's right, the crying can finally stop, little ones. Turn those frowns upside down cause the French actually turned it around and came to our rescue for once. Also, "other matters have been resolved to both parties' mutual satisfaction." I guess that means the whole taping the butt cheeks together incident has been cleared up as well.

Herve Caen, President of Interplay:

"We are very pleased with the outcome of this situation and we are looking forward to a successful and mutually beneficial relationship with Infogrames and BioWare on this and other titles."

Read: Hopefully they'll let us work with them again someday.

Additionally, Ray Muzyka of BioWare had this comment,

"We're delighted that we have reached an amicable settlement agreement in our dispute with Interplay. We look forward to completing the development work on Neverwinter Nights and having Infogrames publish this product."

Read: We're trying to forget about it and get on with our lives.

Whatever, anyway you look at it, it's good news for all of us that have been wilting away with the dismay that this would cause the delay of Neverwinter Nights even farther, not to mention the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic RPG. Infogrames to the rescue.